What is Payer Adjudication: Tips to Improve Your Medical Claims Process
Our last blog post on the revenue cycle journey looked at clearinghouse edits. The next stop in the medical claims process is payer adjudication.
Explore moreNextGen® Advisors Podcast – How Population Health Risk Algorithms Introduce Racial Bias into Every Day Practice
In this podcast, the Advisors discuss a recent Science magazine article which exposed how commonly used population health algorithms introduce racial bias into many clinical decisions. They review the underlying reasons for these algorithm shortcomings and discuss the ways in which these problems can be mitigated.
Explore moreRacial Bias-The Unintended Consequences of Population Health Algorithms
The results of a 2019 research article in the journal Science uncovered significant racial bias in commonly used population health algorithms used to identify and assign care to patients with complex, active health needs.
Explore moreNextGen® Advisors Podcast – What to Expect at the NextGen Virtual User Group Meeting (UGM 2020)
In this podcast, the NextGen® Advisors provide a sneak preview of topics they will be addressing during UGM: Nov. 10-12, 2020.
Explore moreAre Big Changes Coming for Value-based Payment Models?
In September, CMS finalized a new mandatory value-based payment model for patients with kidney disease and a new mandatory value-based payment model for cancer patients receiving radiotherapy treatment. Rather than voluntary models that offer healthcare providers the option to participate, these models require mandatory participation for a select group of providers.
Explore moreNextGen® Advisors Podcast - Building bridges between dentistry and medicine to optimize patient outcomes
In this episode, NextGen Advisor Dr. Martin Lustick speaks with NextGen Healthcare’s oral health experts, Carlos Vallecillo and Brian Peterson about the division between oral health (dentistry) and medical health and how these healthcare services can become more integrated through technology and business practices.
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